Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foun...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations ...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This website gives history and information to patients, providers, payers of western New York sta...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...